Joyce Maynard Autographs
Joyce Maynard (born November 5, 1953) is an American novelist and journalist. She began her career in journalism in the 1970s, writing for several publications, most notably Seventeen magazine and The New York Times. Maynard contributed to Mademoiselle and Harrowsmith magazines in the 1980s, while also beginning a career as a novelist with the publication of her first novel, Baby Love (1981). Her second novel, To Die For (1992), drew on the Pamela Smart murder case and was adapted by Gus Van Sant into the film To Die For in 1995. Maynard received significant media attention in 1998 with the publication of her memoir At Home in the World, in which she describes her relationship with J. D. Salinger.
Maynard has published novels in a wide range of literary genres, including fiction, young adult fiction, and true crime. Her sixth novel, Labor Day (2009), was adapted into the 2013 film Labor Day, directed by Jason Reitman. Her recent novels include Under the Influence (2016), Count the Ways (2021), The Bird Hotel (2023), and How the Light Gets In (2024).
Maynard was born in Durham, New Hampshire, to Fredelle (née Bruser), a journalist, writer, and English teacher, and Max Maynard, a painter and professor of English at the University of New Hampshire (and brother of theologian Theodore Maynard). Her father was born in India to English missionary parents and later moved to Canada; her mother was born in Saskatchewan to Jewish immigrants from Russia. Maynard has an older sister, Rona.
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Traded items with a signature of Joyce Maynard
The most expensive item with a signature of Joyce Maynard (Under the Influence A Novel Autographed Copy Joyce Maynard Trade Paperback 2016) was sold in April 2025 for $500.00 while the cheapest item (SIGNED At Home in the World - Joyce Maynard [Picador, 1998] First Edition) found a new owner for $4.99 in April 2024. The month with the most items sold (5) was December 2025 with an average selling price of $45.00 for an autographed item of Joyce Maynard. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in February 2025 with $191.95 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $4.99 was April 2024. In average, an autographed item from Joyce Maynard is worth $41.00.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Joyce Maynard were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | At Home in the World A Memoir SIGNED Joyce Maynard 1st ED/1st HC+DJ LIKE NEW | $100.95 |  |
 | At Home in the World Memoir Joyce Maynard SIGNED 1998 1st/1st Hardcover New!! | $78.95 | |
| Count the Ways : A Novel by Joyce Maynard (2021, Hardcover) SIGNED!!! | $49.99 | |
| Count the Ways Joyce Maynard Signed Sketch First Print Paperback Good | $54.00 | |
| How the Light Gets In: A Novel by Joyce Maynard 2024 Hardcover Signed Drawing | $7.00 | |
| Joyce MAYNARD / At Home in the World Signed 1st Edition 1998 | $45.00 | |
| Joyce Maynard~LABOR DAY~SIGNED 1ST/DJ~NICE COPY | $26.94 | |
| Joyce Maynard~UNDER THE INFLUENCE~SIGNED 1ST(2)/DJ~NICE COPY | $26.94 | |
| SIGNED At Home in the World by Joyce Maynard 2013 | $25.22 | |
 | SIGNED Copy Of Labor Day By Joyce Maynard | $20.00 | |
| SIGNED Internal Combustion - by Joyce Maynard FIRST EDTION HARD COVER | $100.00 | |
 | SIGNED Joyce Maynard INTERNAL COMBUSTION 1st/1st HC DJ + Hand-Drawing VG+ Crime | $65.00 | |
 | SIGNED Joyce Maynard INTERNAL COMBUSTION 1st/1st HC DJ + Hand-Drawing VG+ Crime | $89.00 | |
| SIGNED Joyce Maynard INTERNAL COMBUSTION 1st/1st HC DJ + Hand-Drawing VG+ Crime | $98.00 | |
| The Usual Rules by Joyce Maynard SIGNED & DRAWING 1st/1st HC DJ 2003 Novel | $29.99 | |
Latest News about Joyce Maynard
How a Novelist Became an Innkeeper (05/23/2023): “These days, my role as an innkeeper occupies me almost as much as fiction,” writes Joyce Maynard, who, during the pandemic, hired locals in a Guatemalan village to turn her writing retreat into a guesthouse. 
Searching for a River to Skate Away On (02/11/2020): It took decades for the writer and lifelong skater Joyce Maynard to find “the perfect illusion of flight.” Recently, on a frozen lake in Vermont, she did.
